October 12, 2017 / By Reporters sans Frontières (Paris) The TSA website has been inaccessible via Algérie Télécom, the country’s state-owned traditional Internet Service Provider, and via Mobilis, the state-owned mobile Internet provider, since 5 October. Algérie Télécom did not formally answer TSA on the reasons for the blocking. In an interview for Radio Chaîne 3 on…
Oktober 9, 2017 / By Servimedia La Plataforma en Defensa de la Libertad de Información (PDLI) lanzó hoy el ‘Manifiesto por un periodismo responsable ante el conflicto catalán’. Según informa la PDLI en un comunicado, “los últimos acontecimientos en relación con el conflicto catalán y el tratamiento informativo del que están siendo objeto, obligan a…
October 9, 2017 / By Europa Press El periódico socialista ‘Diario Progresista’ vuelve a ponerse en marcha este lunes, después de dos años cerrado, bajo la dirección del concejal del PSOE en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid Antonio Miguel Carmona. El periódico socialista ‘Diario Progresista’ vuelve a ponerse en marcha este lunes, después de dos…
October 6, 2017 / By EBU News The EBU supports Bulgarian journalists in their protest against political pressure and urges politicians to refrain from interference in journalists’ work. After days of tension between the ruling parties’ politicians and the media, Bulgarian journalists have staged protests to defend their right to work free from political pressure. The…
October 2, 2017 / By Ghana| Myjoyonline & Abubakar Ibrahim, My Joy Online Vice President of the Ghana Independent Broadcasting Association (GIBA) has described as harsh and laughable, the over ¢1.2 billion fines slapped on some radio stations by the National Communication Authority (NCA). Ernest Boateng said the Authority did not give the stakeholders the opportunity…
October 1, 2017 / By News Ghana More than 130 radio stations in Ghana are facing the wrath of telecommunications industry regulator, the National Communications Authority, for various infractions, a press release issued by the regulator here on Friday said. The stations had their licenses revoked after a nationwide FM Spectrum Audit conducted this year…
September 30, 2017 / By Ghanaweb The New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmaker for Ledzokuku in the Greater Accra Region, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye is unhappy about the closure of 34 radio stations by the National communications Authority (NCA). “When a good action becomes a problem for the majority of people that action no matter its…
September 30. 2017/ By Ghanaweb The unfolding brouhaha emanating from corruption allegations levelled by controversial musician, A Plus against two Deputy Chiefs of Staff, Asenso-Boakye and Abu Jinapor never seems to end as a leaked audio conversation between A Plus and the Deputy Director of Police CID, Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah indicating that the investigative…
September 29, 2017 / By Nathan Gadugah The Minority in Parliament has described as “draconian” fines slapped on defaulting radio stations by the National Communications Authority. In a statement, the group insists the action by the regulator is “troubling” and may have “grave implications for press freedom and media pluralism.” The statement comes a day after…
September 24, 2017 / By Tercera Información.es El presidente de la Federación Europea de Periodistas (FEP), Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, rechaza «el creciente control político sobre los medios» El presidente de la Federación Europea de Periodistas (FEP), Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, defiende en su editorial del último newsletter de la organización que «la libertad de expresión es…
21 September, 2017 / By rcmediafreedom The media sector in Montenegro is characterised by strong political polarisation. The few examples of non-aligned investigative journalism are subject to both direct and indirect pressure by the financial and political powers in the form of legal actions and, in the worst cases, of physical attacks to reporters and their property. The…
20 September, 2017 / By Global Voices Olga Kyryliuk es una experta en Derecho Internacional con un doctorado y cofundadora de la ONG ucraniana Defensores Digitales Asociados – DDA (Партнери цифрового правозахисту en ucraniano), que se dedica a proteger los derechos humanos en línea y a promover la idea de internet libre, abierta y accesible para…
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